ODO OF CAMBRAI°

ODO OF CAMBRAI° (d. 1113), bishop and theologian. Among Odo's works was the polemic text Disputatio contra Judaeum Leonem de adventu Christi, which he claimed was an account of a disputation held in *Senlis during the Christmas season of 1106 between himself and a Jew named Léon. The disputation deals mainly with the virginal birth and the incarnation, and in some places it is clear that Odo borrowed from *Anselm of Canterbury. Odo dedicated this text to a certain Acardus, a monk from the abbey of Fémy, near Cambrai, in commemoration of his visit to this abbey, where he had already expounded the subjects covered by the Disputatio.